Jerome thus
characterizes
a
written thirty-eight dramas (Suid.
written thirty-eight dramas (Suid.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Rhesus.
) [L.
S.
)
(Eckhel, vol. ii. pp. 375–377. )
RHEXE'NOR ('Pnguvwp), two mythical per-
RHESCUPORIS I. , was king in the reign of Ti- sonages, one the father of Chalciope, and the
berius, as is evident from the annexed coin, by second a son of Nausithous the king of the
which we learn that he assumed the name of Phaeacians, and accordingly a brother of Alci-
Tiberius Julius. He continued king at the acces-nous. (A pollod. iii. 15. § 6; Hom. Od. vii. 64,
sion of Caligula, as both the name and head of that &c. )
[L. S. )
emperor appears on his coins ; but he must have RHIA’NUS ('Plavós), of Crete, was a distin-
died or been driven out of his kingdom soon after- guished Alexandrian poet and grammarian, in the
wards, as Caligula made Polemon king both of latter part of the third century B. C. According
Pontus and Bosporus in a. D. 39. [POLEMON, p. to Suidas (s. v. ), he was a native of Bene, or, as
434, b. ]
some said, of Ceraea, two obscure cities in Crete,
while others made him a native of Ithome in
Messenia, a statement easily explained by the
supposition that Rhianus spent some time at
Ithome, while collecting materials for his poem on
the Messenian Wars. He was at first, as Suidas
further tells us, a slave and keeper of the palaestra ;
but afterwards, having been instructed, he became
a grammarian. The statement of Suidas, that he
was contemporary with Eratosthenes, not only in-
dicates the time at which he lived, but suggests
the probability that he lived at Alexandria in per-
COIN OF RHESCUPORIS L
sonal and literary connection with Eratosthenes.
RHESCUPORIS II. , a contemporary of Domitian, I age of Rhianus at B. c. 222.
On the ground of this statement, Clinton fixes the
whose head appears on the annexed coin.
He wrote, according to the common text of
Suidas, έμμετρα ποιήματα, Ηρακλειάδα ένα βιβλίοις
8', where there can be little doubt that we should
read εξάμετρα ποιήματα, since the epic poems of
Rhianus were certainly those of his works to
which he chiefly owed his fame. Thus Athenaeus
expressly designates him enotoIÓS (xi. p. 499 d. ).
.
His poems are mentioned by Suetonius (Tib. 70),
as among those productions of the Alexandrian
school, which the emperor Tiberius admired and
imitated.
The subject of the epic poems of Rhianus were
COIN OF RHESCU PORIS II.
taken either from the old mythology, or from the
RuEscuPORIS III. , a contemporary of Caracalla annals of particular states and countries. Of the
and Alexander Severus, whose heads appear on his former class were his 'Hpáracia (not 'Hpakleias,
coins.
as Suidas has it), and of the latter his 'Axačká,
Ηλιακά, Θεσσαλικά, and Μεσσηνιακά. It is quite
uncertain what was the subject of his poem en-
wa
titled puun, which is only known to us by a single
line quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. e.
'Apákuvõos). For a full account of the extant
fragments of these poems, and for discussion of
their subjects, the reader is referred to Meineke's
essay on Rhianus, in his Analecta Alerandrina.
(See also Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 734, 735 ;
Clinton, F. H. vol iii. pp. 512, 513. )
Like most of the Alexandrian poets, Rhianus
was also a writer of epigrams. Ten of his epigrams
There was also a Rhescuporis IV. , who was a are preserved in the Palatine Anthology, and one
contemporary of Valerian, and a Rhescuporis V. , a by Athenaeus. They treat of amatory subjects
contemporary of Constantine the Great.
with much freedom ; but they all excel in elegance
RHESUS ('Pņoos). 1. A river-god in Bithynia, of language, cleverness of invention, and simplicity
one of the sons of Oceanus and Thetys. (Hes. of expression. He had a place in the Garland of
Theog. 340; Hom. Il. xii. 21 ; comp. Strab. xiii. Meleager. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 479, ii. p. 526 ;
Jacob's Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 229, vol. xii. pp. 945
2. A son of king Eroneus in Thrace, and an-947 ; Meineke, pp. 206--212. )
ally of the Trojans in their war with the Greeks. Respecting the grammatical works of Rhianus,
He possessed horses white as snow and swift as we only know that he is frequently quoted in the
the wind, which were carried off by night by Scholia on Homer, as one of the comnientators on
Odysseus and Diomedes, the latter of whom mur- the poet.
dered Rhesus himself in his sleep (Hom. Il. x. The fragments of Rhianus have been printed in
435, 495, &c. ; Virg. Aen. i. 469, with Serv. note). most of the old collections of the Greek poets (see
AG
Looney
COIN OF RHESCOPORIS III,
p. 590. )
## p. 651 (#667) ############################################
RHODE.
651
RIIODON.
;
e.
Hoffmann, Lex. Bill. Script. Graec. 8. vv. Poetae, bearing the name of Rhode, was one of the Danaids.
Rhianus), and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores Graeci; (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5. )
(L. S. )
and separately edited by Nic. Saal, in an excellent RHODEIA ('Pódeca), a daughter of Oceanus
monograph, Bonn, 1831, 8vo. (comp. Schneidewin's and Thetys, was one of the playmates of Perse-
Review in Jahn's Juhrbücher for 1033, vol. ix. pp. phone. (Hes. Theog. 351 ; Hom. Ilymn. in Cer.
129, &c. ), and, as already mentioned, in Meineke's 451. )
(L. S. )
Analecta Alexandrina, Berol. 1843, 8vo. There RHODOGU'NE. (Arsaces VI. p. 355, a. )
are also Essays on Rhianus by Jacobs (Ephem. litt. RHODON ('Póswv), called, in the HacTesium
Schol. Univ. 1833, Sect. ii. pp. 109, &c. ), Meineke Indiculus, extant under the name of Jerome, Coro-
(Abhandl. d. Berlin. Acad. 1834), and Siebelis, in DON, a Christian writer of the second century. He
a monograph, Budissae, 1829, 4to. [P. S. ] was a native of Proconsular Asia, but appears to
RHINTHON ('Pivowv), of Symcuse or Taren- have removed to Rome, where he was instructed
tum, a dramatic poet, of that species of burlesque (uaOntevels), perhaps converted to Christianity, by
tragedy, which was called pavaxoypadla or inapo- Tatian [TATIANUS). Nothing more is known of
Tpayudía, flourished in the reign of Ptolemy I. his history than that he touk an active part against
king of Egypt (Suid. 8. v. ). When he is placed the heretics of his day ; being certainly engaged
by Suidas and others at the head of the composers ngninst the Marcionites, with one of whom, Apelles
of this burlesque dramn, we are not to suppose [APELLES), he had a personal discussion; and
that he actually invented it, but that he was the probably against the Montanists.
Jerome places
first to develope in a written form, and to intro- him in the time of Commodus and Severus,
duce into Greek literature, a species of dramatic A. D. 180—211.
coniposition, which had already long existed as a He wrote :- 1. Adversus Marcionem Opus.
popular amusement among the Greeks of southern From this work Eusebius, in his account of Rhodon,
Italy and Sicily, and especially at Tarentum. He has given one or two brief citations. It was ad-
was followed by other writers, such as SOPATER, dressed to one Callistion, and contained Rhodon's
Sciras, and BLAESUS.
account of his conference with Apelles, which is
The species of drama which Rhinthon cultivated extracted by Eusebius. According to this account
may be described as an exhibition of the subjects Rhodon silenced his antagonist, and held him up
of tragedy, in the spirit and style of comedy. It to ridicule. Certainly he appears to have possessed
is plain, from the fragments of Rhinthon, that the too much of that self-confidence and fondness for
comic licence extended to the metres, which are reviling which has characterized polemical writers.
sometimes even more irregular than in the Attic Marcion is termed by him “the Pontic Wolf. ” The
comedians (Hephaest. p. 9, Gaisf. ). A poet of this fragments of this work of Rhodon are valuable as
description was called pavać. This name, and that showing the diversity of opinions which prevailed
of the drama itself, Pavakoypapla, seem to have among the Marcionites. 2. Eis triv éfanuepov úró-
been the genuine terms used at Tarentum. urnua, Commentarius in Heraëmeron, which Jerome
of the personal history of Rhinthon we know characterizes as consisting of “ elegantes tractatus. "
nothing beyond the statement of Suidas, that he | 3. Adversum Phrygas (sc. Cataphrygas & Monta-
was the son of a potter. He is said to have nistas) insigne Opus.
Jerome thus characterizes a
written thirty-eight dramas (Suid. 8. v. ; Steph. production of Rhodon, perhaps ascribing to him (as
Byz. s. o. Tápas), of which we still possess the fol- some have judged, from a comparison of cc. 37 and
lowing titles: 'Aupet pów, 'Hpakañs, 'loryévela 39 of his de Vir. IU. ) the work against the Mon-
η εν Αυλίδι, Ιφιγένεια η εν Ταύροις, Ορέστης, | tanists in three books, addressed to Abercius or
Týnepos. He is several times quoted by Athe-Abircius Marcellus, from which Eusebius has given
naeus, Hesychius, and other Greek writers, and a long citation (H. E. v. 16). The work is, how-
by Cicero (ad Att. i. 20), and Varro (R. R. iii. 3. ever, ascribed by Rufinus and Nicephorus Callisti,
§ 9).
among the older writers, and by Baronius, Baluze,
One of the Greek grammarians tells us that and Le Quien, among the moderns, to Claudius
Rhinthon was the first who wrote comedy in hexa- Apollinaris of Hierapolis [ APOLLINARIS, No. 1];
meter verse; the meaning of which probably is, by others to the Apollonius (APOLLONIus, literary,
that in his dramas the dactylic hexameter was No. 13] mentioned and cited by Eusebius (H. E.
largely used, as well as the iambic trimeter (Io. v. 18), and to whom Tertullian (TERTULLIANUS]
Lydus, de Magistr. R. i. 41). The same writer replied in his lost work de Ecstasi ; and by Vale
further asserts that the satire of Lucilius sprung sius (Not. ad Euseb. H. E. v. 16), Tillemont,
from an imitation of the comedy of Rhinthon, just Ceillier, and others, to Asterius Urbanus (URBA-
as that of the subsequent Roman satirists was NUS). The claims of any of these writers to the
derived from the Attic comedians ; but to this authorship of the work cited by Eusebius are, we
s
statement little credit can be attached.
think, feeble. Eusebius, according to some MSS.
The Greek anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. (for the text is corrupt), cites the author simply as
196, No. 12. ) contains an epigram upon Rhinthon Tis, “ a certain writer ;” and it is quite unaccount-
by Nossis. (Müller, Dorier, b. iv. c. 7. § 6); able that he should have omitted to mention his
Osann, Anal. Crit. pp. 69, &c. ; Reuvens, Collectan. name if he had known it ; or that he should have
Litt. pp. 69, &c. ; Jacobs, Animudv. in Anth. Graec. onnitted all notice of the work in his account of
vol. i. pt. i. p. 421; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. Rhodon just before, if he had believed it to be his.
320 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 486. ) [P. S. ] That Jerome ascribed the work to Rhodon is only
RHODE (*Póon), a daughter of Poseidon by an inference: he says, in speaking of Miltiades
Amphitrite, was married to Helios, and became (de Vir. Ilustr. c. 39), that he is mentioned by
by him the mother of Phaeton and his sisters Rhodon ; and as a notice of Miltiades occurs in
(Apollod. i. 4. & 4). It should be observed that the anonymous citation given by Eusebius, it is
the names Rhodos and Rhode are often confounded supposed that Jerome refers to that citation, and
(Diod. v. 55 ; comp. Ruodos). A second person that he therefore supposed it to be from Rhodun.
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652
RHODOPIS.
RHOECUS.
But it is surely not unlikely that a writer of consi- | Herodotus, but it appears clear that Sappho in her
deration like Miltiades, who had been engaged in poem spoke of her under the name of Doricha. It
the Montanist controversy, would be mentioned is therefore very probable that Doricha was her
both by the anonymous writer and by Rhodon, in real name, and that she received that of Rhodopis,
writing on the saine side of the dispute. At any which signifies the “ rosy-cheeked," on account of
rate, if Jerome identified the anonymous writer her beauty. (Herod. ii. 134, 135; Athen. xiii.
with Rhodon, it does not appear that such identifi- p. 596, b; Suid. s. v. 'Podwridos avádnua ; Strab.
cation was more than a conjecture, which weighs xvii. p. 808 ; comp. Ov. Her. xv. 63. )
little against the silence of the earlier, and probably There was a tnle current in Greece that Rhodo
better informed Eusebius.
pis built the third pyramid. Herodotus takes
The fragments of the work against Marcion are great pains (1. c. ) to show the absurdity of the
given in the second volume of Galland's Bibliotheca story, but it still kept its ground, and is related by
Patrum, p. 144, and in Routh's Reliquiae Sucrue, later writers as an unquestionable fact. (Plin. 11. N.
vol. i. p. 349, &c. ; those from the work against xxxvi. 12. & 17; comp. Strab. l. c. ) The origin of
the Montanists in the third volume of Galland, p. this tale, which is unquestionably false, has been
273, under the name of Asterius Urbanus, to whom explained with great probability by Zoega and
the editor ascribes them; and in the second volume Bunsen. In consequence of the name Rhodopis,
of Routh, p. 73, &c. , anonymously. Rhodon, in the “ rosy-cheeked," she was confounded with
his work against the Marcionites, had promised to Nitocris, the beautiful Egyptian queen, and the
prepare a work in elucidation of the obscure pas heroine of many an Egyptian legend, who is said
sages of Scripture, the design of which had been by Julius Africanus and Eusebius to have built
formed by his instructor Tatian: but we have no the third pyramid. (Comp. NITORIS, No. 2. )
evidence that Rhodon ever carried his purpose into Another tale about Rhodopis related by Strabo
effect. (Euseb. H. E. v. 16, 17; Hieron. de Viris (L. c. ) and Aelian (V. H. xiii
. 33), makes her a
Illustr. cc. 37, 39, 40 ; Care, Hist. Litt. ad ann. queen of Egypt, and thus renders the supposition
188, 189, s. v. A sterius Urbanus and Rhodon, vol. of her being the same as Nitocris still more pro-
i. p. 85, ed. Oxon. 1740—1743 ; Fabric. Bibl. bable. It is said that as Rhodopis was one day
Gracc. vol. vii. pp. 161, 168 ; Tillemont, Mémoires, bathing at Naucratis, an eagle took up one of her
vol. iii. p. 64 ; Ceillier, Auteurs Sacrés, vol. ii. p. sandals, flew away with it, and dropt it in the lap
133; Lardner, Credib. part ii. book i. c. 28. S of the Egyptian king, as he was administering
14; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. ii. proleg. c. justice at Memphis. Struck by the strange oc-
5, vol. iii. proleg. c. 2. )
[J. C. M. ] currence and the beauty of the sandal, he did not
RHO'DOPE ('Pogórn), the nymph of a Thracian rest till he had found out the fair owner of the
well, was the wife of Haemus and mother of He- beautiful sandal, and as soon as he had discovered
brus, and is mentioned among the playmates of her made her his queen.
(Eckhel, vol. ii. pp. 375–377. )
RHEXE'NOR ('Pnguvwp), two mythical per-
RHESCUPORIS I. , was king in the reign of Ti- sonages, one the father of Chalciope, and the
berius, as is evident from the annexed coin, by second a son of Nausithous the king of the
which we learn that he assumed the name of Phaeacians, and accordingly a brother of Alci-
Tiberius Julius. He continued king at the acces-nous. (A pollod. iii. 15. § 6; Hom. Od. vii. 64,
sion of Caligula, as both the name and head of that &c. )
[L. S. )
emperor appears on his coins ; but he must have RHIA’NUS ('Plavós), of Crete, was a distin-
died or been driven out of his kingdom soon after- guished Alexandrian poet and grammarian, in the
wards, as Caligula made Polemon king both of latter part of the third century B. C. According
Pontus and Bosporus in a. D. 39. [POLEMON, p. to Suidas (s. v. ), he was a native of Bene, or, as
434, b. ]
some said, of Ceraea, two obscure cities in Crete,
while others made him a native of Ithome in
Messenia, a statement easily explained by the
supposition that Rhianus spent some time at
Ithome, while collecting materials for his poem on
the Messenian Wars. He was at first, as Suidas
further tells us, a slave and keeper of the palaestra ;
but afterwards, having been instructed, he became
a grammarian. The statement of Suidas, that he
was contemporary with Eratosthenes, not only in-
dicates the time at which he lived, but suggests
the probability that he lived at Alexandria in per-
COIN OF RHESCUPORIS L
sonal and literary connection with Eratosthenes.
RHESCUPORIS II. , a contemporary of Domitian, I age of Rhianus at B. c. 222.
On the ground of this statement, Clinton fixes the
whose head appears on the annexed coin.
He wrote, according to the common text of
Suidas, έμμετρα ποιήματα, Ηρακλειάδα ένα βιβλίοις
8', where there can be little doubt that we should
read εξάμετρα ποιήματα, since the epic poems of
Rhianus were certainly those of his works to
which he chiefly owed his fame. Thus Athenaeus
expressly designates him enotoIÓS (xi. p. 499 d. ).
.
His poems are mentioned by Suetonius (Tib. 70),
as among those productions of the Alexandrian
school, which the emperor Tiberius admired and
imitated.
The subject of the epic poems of Rhianus were
COIN OF RHESCU PORIS II.
taken either from the old mythology, or from the
RuEscuPORIS III. , a contemporary of Caracalla annals of particular states and countries. Of the
and Alexander Severus, whose heads appear on his former class were his 'Hpáracia (not 'Hpakleias,
coins.
as Suidas has it), and of the latter his 'Axačká,
Ηλιακά, Θεσσαλικά, and Μεσσηνιακά. It is quite
uncertain what was the subject of his poem en-
wa
titled puun, which is only known to us by a single
line quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. e.
'Apákuvõos). For a full account of the extant
fragments of these poems, and for discussion of
their subjects, the reader is referred to Meineke's
essay on Rhianus, in his Analecta Alerandrina.
(See also Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 734, 735 ;
Clinton, F. H. vol iii. pp. 512, 513. )
Like most of the Alexandrian poets, Rhianus
was also a writer of epigrams. Ten of his epigrams
There was also a Rhescuporis IV. , who was a are preserved in the Palatine Anthology, and one
contemporary of Valerian, and a Rhescuporis V. , a by Athenaeus. They treat of amatory subjects
contemporary of Constantine the Great.
with much freedom ; but they all excel in elegance
RHESUS ('Pņoos). 1. A river-god in Bithynia, of language, cleverness of invention, and simplicity
one of the sons of Oceanus and Thetys. (Hes. of expression. He had a place in the Garland of
Theog. 340; Hom. Il. xii. 21 ; comp. Strab. xiii. Meleager. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 479, ii. p. 526 ;
Jacob's Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 229, vol. xii. pp. 945
2. A son of king Eroneus in Thrace, and an-947 ; Meineke, pp. 206--212. )
ally of the Trojans in their war with the Greeks. Respecting the grammatical works of Rhianus,
He possessed horses white as snow and swift as we only know that he is frequently quoted in the
the wind, which were carried off by night by Scholia on Homer, as one of the comnientators on
Odysseus and Diomedes, the latter of whom mur- the poet.
dered Rhesus himself in his sleep (Hom. Il. x. The fragments of Rhianus have been printed in
435, 495, &c. ; Virg. Aen. i. 469, with Serv. note). most of the old collections of the Greek poets (see
AG
Looney
COIN OF RHESCOPORIS III,
p. 590. )
## p. 651 (#667) ############################################
RHODE.
651
RIIODON.
;
e.
Hoffmann, Lex. Bill. Script. Graec. 8. vv. Poetae, bearing the name of Rhode, was one of the Danaids.
Rhianus), and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores Graeci; (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5. )
(L. S. )
and separately edited by Nic. Saal, in an excellent RHODEIA ('Pódeca), a daughter of Oceanus
monograph, Bonn, 1831, 8vo. (comp. Schneidewin's and Thetys, was one of the playmates of Perse-
Review in Jahn's Juhrbücher for 1033, vol. ix. pp. phone. (Hes. Theog. 351 ; Hom. Ilymn. in Cer.
129, &c. ), and, as already mentioned, in Meineke's 451. )
(L. S. )
Analecta Alexandrina, Berol. 1843, 8vo. There RHODOGU'NE. (Arsaces VI. p. 355, a. )
are also Essays on Rhianus by Jacobs (Ephem. litt. RHODON ('Póswv), called, in the HacTesium
Schol. Univ. 1833, Sect. ii. pp. 109, &c. ), Meineke Indiculus, extant under the name of Jerome, Coro-
(Abhandl. d. Berlin. Acad. 1834), and Siebelis, in DON, a Christian writer of the second century. He
a monograph, Budissae, 1829, 4to. [P. S. ] was a native of Proconsular Asia, but appears to
RHINTHON ('Pivowv), of Symcuse or Taren- have removed to Rome, where he was instructed
tum, a dramatic poet, of that species of burlesque (uaOntevels), perhaps converted to Christianity, by
tragedy, which was called pavaxoypadla or inapo- Tatian [TATIANUS). Nothing more is known of
Tpayudía, flourished in the reign of Ptolemy I. his history than that he touk an active part against
king of Egypt (Suid. 8. v. ). When he is placed the heretics of his day ; being certainly engaged
by Suidas and others at the head of the composers ngninst the Marcionites, with one of whom, Apelles
of this burlesque dramn, we are not to suppose [APELLES), he had a personal discussion; and
that he actually invented it, but that he was the probably against the Montanists.
Jerome places
first to develope in a written form, and to intro- him in the time of Commodus and Severus,
duce into Greek literature, a species of dramatic A. D. 180—211.
coniposition, which had already long existed as a He wrote :- 1. Adversus Marcionem Opus.
popular amusement among the Greeks of southern From this work Eusebius, in his account of Rhodon,
Italy and Sicily, and especially at Tarentum. He has given one or two brief citations. It was ad-
was followed by other writers, such as SOPATER, dressed to one Callistion, and contained Rhodon's
Sciras, and BLAESUS.
account of his conference with Apelles, which is
The species of drama which Rhinthon cultivated extracted by Eusebius. According to this account
may be described as an exhibition of the subjects Rhodon silenced his antagonist, and held him up
of tragedy, in the spirit and style of comedy. It to ridicule. Certainly he appears to have possessed
is plain, from the fragments of Rhinthon, that the too much of that self-confidence and fondness for
comic licence extended to the metres, which are reviling which has characterized polemical writers.
sometimes even more irregular than in the Attic Marcion is termed by him “the Pontic Wolf. ” The
comedians (Hephaest. p. 9, Gaisf. ). A poet of this fragments of this work of Rhodon are valuable as
description was called pavać. This name, and that showing the diversity of opinions which prevailed
of the drama itself, Pavakoypapla, seem to have among the Marcionites. 2. Eis triv éfanuepov úró-
been the genuine terms used at Tarentum. urnua, Commentarius in Heraëmeron, which Jerome
of the personal history of Rhinthon we know characterizes as consisting of “ elegantes tractatus. "
nothing beyond the statement of Suidas, that he | 3. Adversum Phrygas (sc. Cataphrygas & Monta-
was the son of a potter. He is said to have nistas) insigne Opus.
Jerome thus characterizes a
written thirty-eight dramas (Suid. 8. v. ; Steph. production of Rhodon, perhaps ascribing to him (as
Byz. s. o. Tápas), of which we still possess the fol- some have judged, from a comparison of cc. 37 and
lowing titles: 'Aupet pów, 'Hpakañs, 'loryévela 39 of his de Vir. IU. ) the work against the Mon-
η εν Αυλίδι, Ιφιγένεια η εν Ταύροις, Ορέστης, | tanists in three books, addressed to Abercius or
Týnepos. He is several times quoted by Athe-Abircius Marcellus, from which Eusebius has given
naeus, Hesychius, and other Greek writers, and a long citation (H. E. v. 16). The work is, how-
by Cicero (ad Att. i. 20), and Varro (R. R. iii. 3. ever, ascribed by Rufinus and Nicephorus Callisti,
§ 9).
among the older writers, and by Baronius, Baluze,
One of the Greek grammarians tells us that and Le Quien, among the moderns, to Claudius
Rhinthon was the first who wrote comedy in hexa- Apollinaris of Hierapolis [ APOLLINARIS, No. 1];
meter verse; the meaning of which probably is, by others to the Apollonius (APOLLONIus, literary,
that in his dramas the dactylic hexameter was No. 13] mentioned and cited by Eusebius (H. E.
largely used, as well as the iambic trimeter (Io. v. 18), and to whom Tertullian (TERTULLIANUS]
Lydus, de Magistr. R. i. 41). The same writer replied in his lost work de Ecstasi ; and by Vale
further asserts that the satire of Lucilius sprung sius (Not. ad Euseb. H. E. v. 16), Tillemont,
from an imitation of the comedy of Rhinthon, just Ceillier, and others, to Asterius Urbanus (URBA-
as that of the subsequent Roman satirists was NUS). The claims of any of these writers to the
derived from the Attic comedians ; but to this authorship of the work cited by Eusebius are, we
s
statement little credit can be attached.
think, feeble. Eusebius, according to some MSS.
The Greek anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. (for the text is corrupt), cites the author simply as
196, No. 12. ) contains an epigram upon Rhinthon Tis, “ a certain writer ;” and it is quite unaccount-
by Nossis. (Müller, Dorier, b. iv. c. 7. § 6); able that he should have omitted to mention his
Osann, Anal. Crit. pp. 69, &c. ; Reuvens, Collectan. name if he had known it ; or that he should have
Litt. pp. 69, &c. ; Jacobs, Animudv. in Anth. Graec. onnitted all notice of the work in his account of
vol. i. pt. i. p. 421; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. Rhodon just before, if he had believed it to be his.
320 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 486. ) [P. S. ] That Jerome ascribed the work to Rhodon is only
RHODE (*Póon), a daughter of Poseidon by an inference: he says, in speaking of Miltiades
Amphitrite, was married to Helios, and became (de Vir. Ilustr. c. 39), that he is mentioned by
by him the mother of Phaeton and his sisters Rhodon ; and as a notice of Miltiades occurs in
(Apollod. i. 4. & 4). It should be observed that the anonymous citation given by Eusebius, it is
the names Rhodos and Rhode are often confounded supposed that Jerome refers to that citation, and
(Diod. v. 55 ; comp. Ruodos). A second person that he therefore supposed it to be from Rhodun.
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RHODOPIS.
RHOECUS.
But it is surely not unlikely that a writer of consi- | Herodotus, but it appears clear that Sappho in her
deration like Miltiades, who had been engaged in poem spoke of her under the name of Doricha. It
the Montanist controversy, would be mentioned is therefore very probable that Doricha was her
both by the anonymous writer and by Rhodon, in real name, and that she received that of Rhodopis,
writing on the saine side of the dispute. At any which signifies the “ rosy-cheeked," on account of
rate, if Jerome identified the anonymous writer her beauty. (Herod. ii. 134, 135; Athen. xiii.
with Rhodon, it does not appear that such identifi- p. 596, b; Suid. s. v. 'Podwridos avádnua ; Strab.
cation was more than a conjecture, which weighs xvii. p. 808 ; comp. Ov. Her. xv. 63. )
little against the silence of the earlier, and probably There was a tnle current in Greece that Rhodo
better informed Eusebius.
pis built the third pyramid. Herodotus takes
The fragments of the work against Marcion are great pains (1. c. ) to show the absurdity of the
given in the second volume of Galland's Bibliotheca story, but it still kept its ground, and is related by
Patrum, p. 144, and in Routh's Reliquiae Sucrue, later writers as an unquestionable fact. (Plin. 11. N.
vol. i. p. 349, &c. ; those from the work against xxxvi. 12. & 17; comp. Strab. l. c. ) The origin of
the Montanists in the third volume of Galland, p. this tale, which is unquestionably false, has been
273, under the name of Asterius Urbanus, to whom explained with great probability by Zoega and
the editor ascribes them; and in the second volume Bunsen. In consequence of the name Rhodopis,
of Routh, p. 73, &c. , anonymously. Rhodon, in the “ rosy-cheeked," she was confounded with
his work against the Marcionites, had promised to Nitocris, the beautiful Egyptian queen, and the
prepare a work in elucidation of the obscure pas heroine of many an Egyptian legend, who is said
sages of Scripture, the design of which had been by Julius Africanus and Eusebius to have built
formed by his instructor Tatian: but we have no the third pyramid. (Comp. NITORIS, No. 2. )
evidence that Rhodon ever carried his purpose into Another tale about Rhodopis related by Strabo
effect. (Euseb. H. E. v. 16, 17; Hieron. de Viris (L. c. ) and Aelian (V. H. xiii
. 33), makes her a
Illustr. cc. 37, 39, 40 ; Care, Hist. Litt. ad ann. queen of Egypt, and thus renders the supposition
188, 189, s. v. A sterius Urbanus and Rhodon, vol. of her being the same as Nitocris still more pro-
i. p. 85, ed. Oxon. 1740—1743 ; Fabric. Bibl. bable. It is said that as Rhodopis was one day
Gracc. vol. vii. pp. 161, 168 ; Tillemont, Mémoires, bathing at Naucratis, an eagle took up one of her
vol. iii. p. 64 ; Ceillier, Auteurs Sacrés, vol. ii. p. sandals, flew away with it, and dropt it in the lap
133; Lardner, Credib. part ii. book i. c. 28. S of the Egyptian king, as he was administering
14; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. ii. proleg. c. justice at Memphis. Struck by the strange oc-
5, vol. iii. proleg. c. 2. )
[J. C. M. ] currence and the beauty of the sandal, he did not
RHO'DOPE ('Pogórn), the nymph of a Thracian rest till he had found out the fair owner of the
well, was the wife of Haemus and mother of He- beautiful sandal, and as soon as he had discovered
brus, and is mentioned among the playmates of her made her his queen.
